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Tenure for the Common Good

Tenure for the Common Good seeks to rally tenured faculty to use their tenured positions to fight for justice on their own campuses and nationally. They represent a broad spectrum...

Three Reasons Why We Should Not Request Letters of Recommendation for Job Applications

A standard element for a job application for a philosophy tenure-track position is three (or more) letters of recommendation, requested up front. Just glancing through this year’s PhilJobs, I see...

Cultivating Philosophical Style

...with “lens.” Today it is all too common for a philosophy student to write that he or she will be looking at whatever through the lens of whomever—e.g., in this...

Working Intersectionally to Abolish White Supremacy: An Interview with Alyosha Goldstein

...race and Indigenous Studies, social movements, and social and political theory. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century (Duke University...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Wind and Solar Calendar

...and misdirected by trying to make conscience as the voice of common humanity show up in practical reason where it does not actually make complete sense.  When common humanity appears...

Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Dealing with Unwelcome or Inappropriate Attention

...number of other common reactions that turn the tables and deflect from their own manipulative behavior. If you anticipated a series of practical suggestions for what to say to this...

Is It Time For the Humanities to Strike?

...Part-time faculty have become more common than tenured, tenure-track, or full time non-tenure-track faculty, a fact made even more disturbing when you note the disproportionate number of women and people...

Women in Philosophy: Ask a Senior Woman in Philosophy About Disclosing A Disability

...our common practices and policies exclude, then we should have good reasons to think that they ought to be excluded. It strikes me that there is no good reason to...

What It’s Like to be a Philosopher: Michelle Catalano

...wasn’t very good. I was still not very good when I went through my “lecture like a robot” phase and only now that I’ve been doing it for well over...

Women in Philosophy: Interview with Lauren Freeman, Editor of the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy

...good critical, analytical review and discussion. The CFP just came out. Another topic that I’d like to cover in a future issue is that of motherhood/parenthood and philosophy. Several years...